Archive / Tag: Flight from Burma

  • BACSA Papers
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    Papers donated to the Centre by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Memoirs and accounts of the evacuation of Burma ahead of the Japanese invasion of 1942. […]
  • Edgerley Papers: Box 9
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    Donated by Mr D. Edgerley File 1: Letter, Shwebo. 15 March 1942. Letter from David Edgerley’s mother to his father, written from Shwebo on the eve of her evacuation to […]
  • Howe Papers
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    Donated by Mrs Nan Howe. Small Collections Box 14 Wartime diary of William ‘Bill’ Howe, M.C. detailing his evacuation from Burma [Myanmar] ahead of the Japanese invasion of 1942. the […]
  • Cardew Papers
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    Diary extract about the Japanese invasion of Burma and the evacuation of refugees into India, 1942. Donated by BACSA. Small Collections Box 6  Diary extract from Jack Cardew, 2/1/1942-5/5/1942, a […]
  • Mackrell Papers: Box 3
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    Papers and notes from Dennis Segal about the evacuation and general information of Burma. Folder 1 – Report given by the Indian Tea Association on the assistance given by the […]
  • Mackrell Papers: Box 2
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    Papers relating to Gyles Mackrell, a tea planter in Assam during the evacuation of Burma; papers about Lambert and his work during the evacuation of Burma. Folder 1 – Extract […]
  • Mackrell Papers: Box 1
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    Letters and diary entries from Sir John Rowland and his party as they evacuated Burma into Assam; letters and diaries of Alasdair Tainsh. Folder 1 – Diary of Sir John […]
  • Whyte Papers
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    V.C. Whyte Burma, 1940s. Comments, notes and criticisms of evacuation scheme: Tamu via Mintha, Narum, Sita, Namtok, Heirok, Wangjing, Imphal; and Tamu Waksu, Limmlong, Sita. etc, A detailed description of […]
  • Tayabji Papers
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    Photocopy made through the good offices of Mr. S.F. Bolt. ‘The Burma Story (December 1941 – July 1942)’ told by Captain N.S. Tayabji (Indian Navy Retired) recounts the saga of […]
  • Rose Papers
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    Small Collections Box 20 Given by Mrs. D. Rose Bengal, Kashmir, Burma, Assam 1942-1946 Letters from Mrs. Dorothy Rose in Calcutta, to England. 30 December 1944: The dirt and disease […]